Courtright Train Station Photos
Posted By admin on February 2, 2010
I have posted more photos of the Courtright train station along with some information on its size.
☛Present Progress of Railroads in Canada
Posted By admin on February 2, 2010
The Sarnia Observer and Western Advertiser
February 9, 1854
Present Progress of Railroads in Canada
Montreal and Bytown – We are happy to announce that on the 18th inst.,
a commencement was made upon this work. The Contractors, Messers.
Sykes & Co., do not dilly dally with their undertakings. It is only
about two months since the contract was signed, and already the route
has been surveyed, a great portion of it located, and now thepart most
required is already in hand. It is known to our readers that the
navigation of the Ottawa is interrupted at Carillon, about 45 miles
from Montreal, by rapids and chutes which extend to Grenville, about
18 miles above, and that the Canals cut to overcome them were made at
a time when Durham boats alone did duty in transferring traffic to
Upper Canada, and ontoo small a scale to permit steamers of the
present day to pass through their locks. Passengers therefore, to
Bytown, have been conveyed bystages between the navigation at Carillon
and the navigation above at Grenville, at much comparitive discomfort.
It is this reach, therefore, which Messers., Sykes & De Bergue, with
great consideration for public convenience have resolved to put in
hand even at some disadvantage without losing a day, and to push it
through with such energy that by the opening of the spring the line
will be ready to receive the rail, and before the summer travel really
commences to have it in running order, unless some untoward accident
occur to prevent it.
☛ Annexation Of Canada
Posted By admin on February 2, 2010
The Sarnia Observer and Western Advertiser
February 9,1854
Annexation of Canada
The finest portion of the British Provinces in North America is the
Peninsula lying west and south Of Lake Ontario, and between the
Niagara and Detroit River. It is projected into our territory like a
bastion, separating the States of New York and Michigan, and lying
across the most direct line of communication between ports which
receive the great mass of European emigration and the fields of the
Northwest which they come to cultivate. It has been heretofore
isolated by the want of harbors on the Canadian shore of Lake Erie,
and on the interior routes.
On the 17th inst., the completion of the railroad running
through this terriotory from the Suspension Bridge at Niagra Falls to
Detroit was celebrated at the latter city, and but a few days before
the opening of the branch railroad intersecting the main line at
Brantford and connecting it with Buffalo, was the occasion of similar
festivities. The course of travel henceforth, from Detroit to
seaboard, will be over the Canada Road, across the Suspension bridge,
and the Niagara branch of the Central Railroad to Rochester and thence
to Eastern cities, and the stream of emigration will pursue the same
route in the opposite direction. Canada West is thus annexed by iron
bands to our Union, and is to be the highway for hundreds of thousands
of our citizens every year on their journeys to and from their Western
homes.
Beating swords into plow shares was a striking and forcible
figure in its day, but compare it with the fact stated in an extract
from a Western paper to the effect that ” Bennett Marshall & Co., of
Pittsburg, have bought a large quantity of large iron cannons in
Canada which they will convert into railroad iron. The cannon were
used against the United States through out the war in 1812, and it is
said made havoc among our troops at Malden and Lundy’s Lane ” Ponder
the signifiance of this fact, and then consider how long it is likely
to be, after the boundry between them is but a scratch on a rail on
the Suspension Bridge over the Niagara River; across which trains
freighted with citizens of both Governments shall cross a dozen times
a day, before the people of the two countries will take security that
the rails will never be converted into cannon, by obliterating the
political divisions and taking down the two flags that now float at
opposite ends of the bridge to replace them by another with an extra
star on its field. The precise occasion and the mode in which this
consummation will be reached are not now apparent, but it is none the
less certain because neither party is at present disposed to take any
steps in order to hasten it.
At the Brantford celebration Mr. Wadsworth of Buffalo referred
to the fact that wheat which obtained the premium at the World’s
Exhibition was grown in that town while the line of that road is yet
skirted by forests covering land capable of growing such wheat. These
circumstances will be apt to attract Yankee settlers throughout this
portion of the peninsula adjoining the new avenues to market, and
every one of the them will find fresh arguments for a political union,
with his mother country. It is unnecessary to refer to the obvious
considerations showing that these Railroads are potent agents of
annexation. If things are well let alone it will come soon enough. -
N.Y. Tribune February 9, 1854
Amazing Rail Art
Posted By admin on February 1, 2010
Railroad Art Pool on Flickr
☛Completion Of The Grand Trunk Telegraph line to Buffalo
Posted By admin on January 24, 2010
The Sarnia Observer and Western Advertiser
February 2, 1854
Telegraph Line To Buffalo.
The Hamilton & Buffalo Division of the Grand Trunk Telegraph Line
was yesterday completed and put in successful operation. At the
office of the company may be seen by the curious, that novelty, in
Canadian telegraphing at least, Morse’s Lightning Printing Press.
This section of the line will be worked throughout with a printing
instrument, which for expedition, accuracy and beauty, appears to
eclipse entirely every other system ever invented for telegraphing.
For it’s introduction into this country, the Company are indepted to
the enterprise of it’s former superintendent, Mr. W. D. Snow. The
completion of this section gives a total distance now working to the
Grand Trunk Company of 880 miles, while the completion of the Montreal
and Quebec section, by the same contractors on the 1st prov., will
make an aggregate of 1085 miles or the longest line under one company,
in America.- Hamilton Spectator.
Oops
Posted By admin on January 13, 2010
Last night the snow plow clipped the crossing signals on Hill St. in Corunna at the CN tracks. Today Chris Robins and Darrel Reid were doing the repairs to get it functional again.
☛Grand Trunk Railway February 2 ,1854
Posted By admin on January 11, 2010
The Sarnia Observer and Western Advertiser
February 2, 1854
Grand Trunk Railway – Whether there is any foundation for the rumor, which has received currency through City
Council that an amalgamation between the Great Western and Grand Trunk Lines has taken place, does not yet appear.
Should such an event have transpired, it is not unreasonable that a corollary to the contract between the companies
will be a stipulation for the abandonment of the Western Branch of the line,intended to connect Toronto with the
Western Frontier at Sarnia. The effect of such an arrangement in the prospective calculations of this City, is a
matter of ver serious impact. Un questionably the understanding was, that this Line should run to the River St.
Clair, avoiding a junction with the Great Western at any point of the route. The City as a stock holder in the
Line, has no common interest in fulfilment of these stipulations. If it is determined by our Railway Governors to
break them we shall see good reason apart from the temporary rise in the Grand Trunk Stock for those indicious men,
the Contractors seeking to relieve the Corporation of it’s responsibilities in the Road. We shall be able better to
appreciate the magnanamity of those overtures, to free the ratepayers of Toronto of the risk to which they were
subjected, so long as the success of the work was still problematical, and astringency in the money no remote
possibility. These are times, we suppose, when we may look for such disinterested others, and put them to the
credit of the good time coming. Will the Organs please do read us another homily on public virtue? — Examiner.
☛Grand Trunk Telegraph February 2, 1854
Posted By admin on December 21, 2009
Completion of the Grand Trunk Telegraph line to Buffalo
The Sarnia Observer and Western Advertiser
February 2, 1854
Completion of the Grand Trunk Telegraph Line in Buffalo.
The Hamilton & Buffalo division of The Grand Trunk Telegraph Line was yesterday completed and put in successful operation. At the other end the company may be seen by the curious, that novelty, in Canadian telegraphing at least
H,,,, lightining printing press. This section of the line will be worked throughout with a printing
instrument,which for expedition, accuracy and beauty, appears to eclipse entirely every other system ever innvented for telegraphing. For it’s introduction into this country. the Company are indepted to the enterprise of it’s
former Superintendent Mr W. D. Snow. The completion of this section gives a total distance now working to the Grand
Trunk Company of 880 miles, while the completion of the Montreal and Quebec section by the same contractors on the
1st province, will make an aggregate of 1085 miles, or the longest line under one company in America – Hamilton
Spectator.
London Train Show November 29th
Posted By admin on November 28, 2009
London Train Show Tomorrow at Centennial Hall from 10:00 am to 2:30 pm.
check Ontario Model Train Shows web page for more info.
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